2015- a good year or not?

[gstott]

Spring started out great. It came early and I was catching a lot of nice largemouth from March-June. Then I got to go to the boundary waters in Minnesota and catch a ton of smallmouth and see the northern lights. When I got back though it was hot, sunny and dead calm pretty much every time I got out. The water levels were either very high and the fish were scattered, deep and non aggressive, or low and very murky. Either way conditions were tough and fishing was only so so for me. Summer kind of held on into October with the fish never really falling into their aggressive autumn feeding frenzy, and then the bottom dropped out and it's been very cold ever since.

I'm curious about this next year. One thing that should make it interesting is that I'm going to South Africa in February and am going to fly fish for yellowfish. That will be a new experience for sure. So far snow pack is good, so hopefully that will contribute to some good fishing here at home too.
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